Locus Amoenus provides a pioneering collection of new perspectives on Renaissance garden history, and the impact of its development. Experts in the field illustrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment. A ground-breaking collection of new perspectives on garden history Essays demonstrate the extent of our knowledge of how the natural world looked and how humans related to their environment The book's broad coverage includes botany and herbals, literary reflections of changing ideas of landscape and nature, and human's place within it Contributors come from a wide range of experts, including archaeologists, scholars and the librarian and archivist to the Royal Horticultural Society Reflects the growing emergence of this field, which has been assisted both by archaeology and ideasfrom green studies and environmental criticism Richly illustrated throughout INDICE: Notes on Contributors. Introduction Locus amoenus: gardens and horticulture in the Renaissance (Alexander Samson) 1. The world of the Renaissance herbal (Brent Elliott) 2. Clinging to the past: medievalism in the English Renaissance' garden (Paula Henderson) 3. River gods: personifying nature in sixteenth-century Italy (Claudia Lazzaro) 4. Dissembling his art: Gascoigne's Gardnings' (Susan C. Staub) 5. My innocent diversion of gardening': Mary Somerset's plants (Jennifer Munroe) 6. Outdoor pursuits: Spanish gardens, the huerto and Lope de Vega's Novelas a Marcia Leonarda (Alexander Samson) 7. Experiencingthe past: the archaeology of some Renaissance gardens (Brian Dix) Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4443-6151-3
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha Publicación: 23/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés